I'd never purposely criticise an eBay seller for letting a watch go too cheaply. Let's face it, it doesn't happen very often nowadays. However, it does appear you need to be careful whom you sell it to, sometimes. This two-tone 7A38-728A was listed on Monday evening this week, by a UK eBay seller, with a Buy-it-Now price of £130. Not particularly cheap, in view of the condition. The watch was clearly suffering from a badly tarnished gold-plated bezel and was fitted with a non-original 7-hole adjustment clasp, presumably to compensate for a shortage of bracelet adjustment links. It sold on Tuesday morning for the £130 asking price. I didn't think any more about it at the time.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/196046632529
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I didn't recogise it immediately, but the same 7A38-728A was listed on eBay yesterday afternoon, by profiteering UK eBay re-seller
hollizaaak007 (a.k.a. Gary Turner), with a typically greedily marked-up Buy-it-Now price of
£375 !!
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-Seik ... 6138075974
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He may have given the tarnished bezel a quick polish, but the non-standard 7-hole adjustment clasp and the case-back serial number 845561 are visible in his photos, so it's definitely the same watch.
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That dear readers, is a prime example of why it's so difficult to find a reasonably priced (heaven forbid cheap) Seiko 7A38 - of just about any model on eBay nowadays. I'm glad I bought mine years ago, before the profiteering re-sellers started ruining it for everybody. Here's a fairly recent wrist shot of my two-tone 7A38-728A, owned since July 2009:
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Cost me all of £30.50. Ah those were the days.
